Conveyor system with a conveyor carriage with axially aligned track rollers

US7735425B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bosch Rexroth Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Ernst Leisner
• Volker Porzer · Baltmannsweiler, DE
• Peter Ludwig · Tübingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 2005
• Grant date: Jun 15, 2010
• Expiry date: Mar 18, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G17/002
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A conveyor system (10) includes a conveyor course (12), which has a curved portion and two tracks (22, 24) located one above the other, and a conveyor carriage (14); each of the tracks (22, 24) is assigned at least one horizontal track roller (34, 36) of the conveyor carriage (14), and at least one of the tracks (22, 24) is assigned a further horizontal track roller (34, 36), which is spaced apart in the conveying direction (L) from the one track roller (34, 36) associated with the same track (22, 24). The axes of rotation (A, B) of the two track rollers (34, 36) are located in alignment with one another; and, whenever both tracks (22, 24) are each assigned a further track roller (34, 36), the axes of rotation (A, B) of these further track rollers (34, 36) are likewise in alignment with one another.